As far as these media outlets are concerned it appears yet another killing of a London cyclist by a lorry driver is not regarded as newsworthy. And while trawling the net to see if there was any news on today's fatality I came across stories of cyclists killed on Thursday and Friday.

Update 6 p.m.

Doesn't look like The Standard is going to mention it. And the only thing that has changed is BBC Ceefax London News has changed its headline to Dog-lovers call for safer cycling. In other words, more flat earth news.

On the rare occasions I watch the BBC TV breakfast show I am always struck by how much prominence is given to 'war on the motorist' stories and how the grinning presenters assume that 'we' all drive cars, 'we' all hate speed cameras and traffic wardens, and 'we' have all clocked up tickets for speeding.

Why not ask the head of BBC News why the death of a cyclist in central London today was not regarded as newsworthy? Her email address is: helenboaden.complaints@bbc.co.uk

Update, Thursday 25 September

It turns out that the cyclist who was crushed to death by a lorry in central London yesterday was a woman, not, as originally reported, a male cyclist. Today’s Standard has a report, though it’s largely ripped off from Moving Target, with the photograph nicked from the ITN London News bulletin.

The TfL spokeswoman is an idiot. Cycling becomes safer the more people cycle and achieve a critical mass. So logically she should have said 'because of' not 'despite'. However, the statistic she quotes is a very dodgy one, since it refers to commuter cycling on selected major London routes. It does not hold true for London in general. In Waltham Forest in the daytime I can cycle for miles and never see another cyclist. That only changes early in the morning or in the early evening, when commuter cyclists appear. And declining casualty figures do not necessarily mean that roads are becoming safer (that myth was demolished once and for all by Robert Davis in Death on the Streets).

Moving Target has more on cyclists and lorries and some practical advice and suggestions here.

As far as I can tell BBC News has shunned this story. Absurdly (but quite consistent with the theory that its top journalists have racked up scores of tickets for speeding and parking offences) it is making a major story out of the fact that a man in Sunderland is challenging Sunderland council’s parking enforcement on a technicality. Even though this is a Sunderland story, the BBC thinks this is London news.